Videos

Reacquaint yourself with our invertebrate brethren. In his teaching lab full of strange and wonderful creatures, biologist Michael LaBarbera will talk about the revolution in our understanding of invertebrate animals and illustrate with living animals...

While all life originally arose in the seas, about 370 million years ago one group of fish evolved new anatomical features that enabled them to crawl out of the ocean and take up residence on dry land. This invasion of land by fish was one of the majo...

Chivalry and the Machine: What do knights have to do with the origins of the railroad? Historian Rachel Fulton will offer a discussion of the way in which nineteenth-century Europeans, particularly in England, developed a mythology of industrial produ...

Choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones participates in a workshop examining genealogies of black, gay, male dance to students in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture; the Center for Gender Studies; and the Lesbian and Gay Studies Pro...

Provocative choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones gives a presentation entitledThe Persistence of Questions.Jones, who was named anirreplaceable dance treasureby the Dance Heritage Coalition, will also enters a public conversation with WBEZ's Gretche...

Poet, essayist, and translator, Lyn Hejinian is the author or co-author of fourteen books of poetry, including The Beginner (Spectacular Books, 2000), Happily (Post Apollo Press, 2000), Sight (with Leslie Scalapino, 1999), The Cold of Poetry (1994), T...

Sanjay Dhar, marketing professor in the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, investigates the strategic role of advertising investments in the formation of long-run industrial market structures. (c)2006 The University of Chicago.

Sanjay Dhar, of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, observes several striking geographic patterns in the performance of national brands. (c)2006 The University of Chicago

Milan Mrksich, professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, discusses his research on integrating living cells with non-living engineered microsystems to create hybrid devices. (c) 2006 The University of Chicago

Peter Filkins is a graduate of Williams College and Columbia University, where he received his M.F.A. in poetry. An Associate Professor in the Division of Languages & Literature at Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, F...